{"id":8279,"date":"2011-07-30T12:05:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T03:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=8279"},"modified":"2011-07-30T12:05:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T03:05:23","slug":"dogtooth-tuna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=8279","title":{"rendered":"My 2 Dogtooth Tunas"},"content":{"rendered":"

for the past 5 years, i’ve been calling dogtooth tuna “uso maguro” in japanese. uso means lier. it’s really called iso maguro. i feel like a fool.
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\ni haven’t free dove in a while so i was pretty excited to get into the water. takahashi-san dropped me off on a pinnacle in the middle of the ocean. it’s a 25 meter ledge dropping to 40 meters. that’s 82′ dropping to 131′. so i jump in, i see some tuna’s on the bottom. i drop down to 50′ on my first dive, they come up to check who the heck i am. i line up the big one, i take the shot. bang!!! he takes my shaft down to the bottom and rips off. shit! lose a big tuna! i reload, i’m on the top looking down. not the tuna’s are smart and know that i’m coming for them. my second drop, i go down 23 meters or 75′. i’m already losing my breath and decide i better start going back up. the tuna’s start coming in, i wait, the smallest one comes in so i take the shot. it starts screaming towards the bottom, i hold on for my dear life because i have no tag line and buoy. if i let go, i lose my gun. i look up to the surface (not a good idea), i’m 80′ down with a tuna pulling me under. somehow i manage to swim up. i get one tuna on the boat. like everything, i want more. i jump back in, i reload, and shoot another one. i had to work hard for these 2 dogtooth tuna’s.
\nanyway, okinawa is a beautiful place. i’ve been here about 20 times and never can get enough. friends, food, surf, dive, and the mensore spirit. aloha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

for the past 5 years, i’ve been calling dogtooth tuna “uso maguro” in japanese. uso means lier. it’s really called iso maguro. i feel like a fool. i haven’t free dove in a while so i was pretty excited to get into the water. takahashi-san dropped me off on a pinnacle in the middle of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[159,426,161,427,87,167,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-8279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs","7":"tag-diving","8":"tag-dog-tooth","9":"tag-free-diving","10":"tag-iso-maguro","11":"tag-okinawa","12":"tag-spearfishing","13":"tag-tuna"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}